By the way, I remembered my idea that Dortmund will play either in a great mood after reaching the 1/4 of the Champions League, or in a terrible mood after relegation. In both options, they should play well. Despite the fact that Schalke in recent games almost does not concede goals, theoretically they should return to the average result in the season - almost 2 goals per game. Perhaps I will bet on the victory of Dortmund with a handicap of -1 and odds of 2.46. I see myself as betting on Dortmund win. Borussia Dortmund has been playing good matches lately in the leadership race. Maybe they will lose points because they will be tired in the match they will play with Schalke after the difficult test they will play with Chelsea, but I still see Borussia Dortmund as the winner. I totally disagree with you on Borussia Dortmund winning their match against Chelsea because of their good football. Let's not forget that Chelsea is playing at home at Stamford Bridge and with the support of their fans coupled with the positive effect of their winning at the weekend, they're surely gonna win the match tonight against Borussia Dortmund. The only thing I think that weaken the morale of this Chelsea side later tonight is if they allow Dortmund to score first. I know it is easy to comment on this retrospectively, but I also didn't think that Dortmund is going to make it to the next round when Adeyemi was injured and immediately before the game started Kobel also had to skip and then Julian Brandt got injured after four minutes... There was also congestion on the streets and Dortmund arrived too late at the stadium. Can you ask for anything worse? ... Yes you can. The penalty against them and then also that the penalty was repeated, which is a weird rule. I don't know which of the players will also be missing against Schalke, but Dortmund is a lot weaker without Brandt, Adeyemi and Kobel. They are still good enough to beat Schalke, but it's less offensive power without the two offenders.
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Freiburg seems to have lost its momentum. A draw is too little. They have not played at the level expected of them in recent weeks. The chasers are getting closer slowly and if Freiburg does not win the next games it will be hard for them to keep place 5 or 6. They have to win their next two games. They should be able to do that against Hoffenheim. And a win against Mainz would be important to keep them at distance.
The match against Hoffenheim cannot be hard for them. If you take a look at Hoffenheim's recent matches they lost all the recent five games they had with bad results and showed bad performance also they are currently in 16th place in the league in the danger zone while Freiburg got a much better situation and beating Hoffenheim in this match cannot be hard for them. So I guess Freiburg is going to win this game unless something unexpected happens. Hoffenheim is in very bad form right now. They cannot win any match for a long time. Consistently we see Hoffenheim's poor performances. Hoffenheim's striker performance has been very poor, scoring only 29 goals in 23 matches. And they lost all 14 matches. Hoffenheim is unlikely to win against Freiburg in such conditions. Freiburg is a strong team. And they want to qualify for the Champions League. If Freiburg can get full points against Hoffenheim today, they will move up to third place in the points table. I will bet Freiburg to win today. It would be sad to see them get relegated into the 2. Bundesliga as they have always been fun to watch and the games they played have often been a guarantee for many chances and many goals. Even though they had the advantage of being backed by an investor, I still think they did an amazing job training new and young talents and turning them into highly-coveted players. They also haven't spent double digit salaries on single players. They had some reasonable policies in place and still played great. I don't think it is over yet but they need a serious reset and get going as fast as they can. They can win games, but right now it seems as if they forgot how they should do it. Still some time left to fix the issues. It is all about results now.
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Bayern Munich really could have lost points in the last minutes of their Stuttgart game. But they won eventually and this is what matters now.
Because there is a really fierce competition going on between them and Dortmund now. They can't afford losing points against weaker teams at this point. Otherwise Dortmund are really likely to close that week as the leader. Dortmund are doing much more than I expected this season. Even though their priority isn't the Bundesliga title they are literally going for it now. While they are motivated to do that it will be really difficult for the other teams than Bayern Munich to stop them.
That's all that counts for them these days. They don't have to take care of their goal difference anyway as that is superior until the end of the season no matter what, but for them it is now about results. No need to play beautiful soccer against an intense team from Stuttgart. But they know that they now have a fully dedicated contender with Dortmund. I was hoping for Berlin to get back on track and play a more dominant role again, but it is like they have been losing power the past weeks and can't get their engine back to full power. What worked at the beginning of the season just doesn't work as well right now. Hopefully they can defend their position they have in the next games.
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The problem does not lie in where Biance is based, because a long time ago the matter was raised and we did not get a clear answer, or at least the average person does not specify their headquarters, as is possible with many companies, but the most important question is the management structure..
Almost, if you ask any one about who are the managers of Biance or who owns the company, the answer will be CZ, other than that we do not have any information, and it is likely that if a problem occurs, we will find many fake intermediaries companies with Biance.
I think CZ has all reasons after those spectacular collapses of FTX and others to fix any hidden problems if there are any at Binance. Assuming he made some leveraged insane bets and has not sufficiently backed his stable currency, he would now have enough time to get those issues solved. I don't think he wants to end the way Sam Bankman-Fried ends or will end. Who knows whether he will go to jail, perhaps not. But he is done in the industry and his name is full of dirt. I can be wrong, but I just don't believe that CZ would like to be pigeonholed along with SBF.
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Union Berlin started a bad form for two weeks by not getting any win. I can understand the loss versus Bayern Munich but the one against Schalke that they got a draw was unexpected. Maybe this could be a sign of another lasting bad series for them in the league but we will see. Their next game is a home one against Koln. I can't say Koln are in a good shape at all. As long as Union Berlin don't get very comfortable they should be winning this.
But I still don't expect an amazing effort until the end of the season. They would get behind Dortmund and Bayern Munich quite much at some point. But even if they finish the season in top 4 it would still be great for them.
I still wouldn't call it bad form. They have beaten Ajax in the Europa League with a strong performance. The draw against Schalke can happen, it is ok. The loss against Bayern Munich was expected even though it was a weak performance by Union Berlin. I think it comes down to the next Bundesliga game. If they lose that game I would agree that they are in bad form at least in the Bundesliga. But I think they will show a good game against Cologne.
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Bayern Munich have always set a good standard in their record of performance, I can't be surprised that Bayern Munich who has really not been stable in this season will defeat Union Berlin to lead the league. The outcome of the game really showed the strength of Bayern Munich and may not be possible for other teams in the league to succeed in winning the league this season. Bayern Munich can always find the team to be at the top of league. I won't be still surprise if Bayern Munich will achieve more points than Dortmund in the league too.
The reason why Bayern Munich is usually in a good shape is clear to me, Compared to all other teams in Germany and the Bundesliga they have got much better players and better coaches also they got better more investments in the team so clearly compared to all other teams there, they will get better results while teams Union Berlin got mostly unknown players with less investment, clearly, they cannot race with a Bayern Munich for the Bundesliga title. Compared to other teams, Bayern Munich has above average strength compared to other Bundesliga teams, their position is almost the same as Paris Saint Germain in Ligue 1. Their mentality as the champions in Germany's highest competition is also better than other teams. The landslide victory against Union Berlin proved their identity as the champion team that held that status in the last decade. We all know that it was the moment for Union Berlin to put them above Bayern Munich, but they were unable to make them better than Bayern Munich. They certainly do and that doesn't only apply to the 11 players who start the game, but to almost the entire bench as well. That's a major strength if you can take 5 players off and send 5 world class players on the field. That's the luxury Bayern has and no other team can afford that. That is also why a number of clubs just lose sight of Bayern during the season as they can't replace injuries as effectively as Bayern can. Every single injury is a big headache to all the teams other than Bayern.
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$12B gone in less than 60 days. The outflow till end of February is bigger, that report was published in January. Binance was capable to handle those user withdrawals in the past two months and it is not a small capital flow out of Binance. They did not fall into insolvent crisis like FTX but Reminder: do not keep your money in online accountsTrust or don't trust Binance, the reminder is important as "not your keys, not your bitcoins[/url]. If people let Binance and CZ hold your keys, you don't have your bitcoins. I agree that centralized exchanges are risky as we have learnt many times in the past. But if I had to choose which exchange to trust, Binance would still be on the list of favored exchanges. CZ is present everywhere, he doesn't hide, he can visit any country as he is not legally prosecuted anywhere. I also never had the feeling that he is the same type of person as the FTX guy. It can always be a facade of course, but he has met his obligations for his customers at any time as far as I know. That might not matter to everyone, but CZ is 46 years of age. You are more grown up at that age. That still doesn't mean automatically that you can handle billions responsibly, but Sam Bankman-Fried became a billionaire within a year or so in his mid twenties. I think that's a bit more complicated. There is no time for your personality to really adjust to the new circumstances. Zuckerberg was young when he turned a billionaire, but he was running facebook for over three years by then, had a network of investors who could influence him and there are more limitations to using your own assets / shares for a gamble.
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I think it's part of the process, we can't just look at the game shown by one player, we have to see them as a whole. Have we seen Chelsea play well now? I can't say that yet, to be honest. Joao Felix can show good performance if his team plays well, in the sense that he can't play alone. Graham Potter has yet to find a strategy that is truly implemented optimally by the players who are on the field, it also affects the performance of the players. He also recently joined Chelsea, so I still have high hopes for him.
Manchester United is a good example for that. They have become more and more united in the literal sense over time. Chelsea isn't a real team yet. They are quite strong individually, but they don't have a system that they can stick to for 90 minutes and outplay the opponent. They just need too many chances as well. Werner is gone but he could have scored twice every game and hardly scored any goals at all. Havertz is the same problem and we will see how Joao Felix will do. What leaves me seriously puzzled is how Chelsea will stick to the financial fair play rules. Everyone with a sense of fairness knows that this can only be with accounting tricks, but then it still has nothing to do with financial fair play in my opinion. In terms of cohesiveness now maybe that can be emulated and indeed this is what happens when the players and coaches are well synchronized not only depending on one party. Even though some Manchester United players have still not shown anything above average, let's say Weghorst, who until now has not shown his quality but that has been covered and of course this is not a problem because Manchester United's performance is still good. In contrast to Chelsea's condition, which is sure to be scrutinized both as a team and individually because of their performances this season. That's right, a strong and well synchronized team can also empower players that are usually average or only a bit above average, but if several players fail individually it is game over. Chelsea doesn't even have one full part that is playing reliably. The defense makes mistakes, the offense doesn't score, they don't help each other during a game to relax for a minute or two. There is pressure all the time due to simple mistakes or unused opportunities.
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and who is the new coach in nürnberg ? Dieter Hecking . the good Dieter is now sports director and coach at the same time. so he can make up for his own mistakes maybe again .
I did not expect this decision. But if Dieter Hecking has the confidence to coach again and gets the team to avoid relegation? Why not? It is worth a try. But I do not suspect that the dismissal of Markus Weinzierl was planned. Perhaps Hecking was also questioned from the board members and he had to take on the entire responsibility. He might be the right guy at the right moment for this job. He has been a decent coach throughout his career. His biggest success were 2015 when he won the DFB-Pokal and the DFB-Supercup. He knows how to handle teams that are going through a crisis. The upcoming weekend is going to be the showdown between Darmstadt and Hamburg. If Darmstadt wins it would be a huge step towards the Bundesliga and for Hamburg it could mean that they get into trouble again if Heidenheim wins their game against Arminia Bielefeld. Chances are good for Heidenheim.
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HSV:Bielefeld 2:1 the goals were scored by reis and jatta for hsv and oczipka for bielefeld. hsv was lucky today that bielefeld did not use some good chances. however, it must also be said that hsv did not get a penalty shortly before the end of the match. thus the victory of hsv is deserved in the end and hsv now has 44 points. the other games from today:
heidenheim:nürnberg 5:0
Hamburg did not do more in this game than it was necessary. Before the two goals, you could see that it was a different performance from Hamurg than during the other time in the game. You could see how good the team was at this stage. Heidenheim had the advantage that Nürnberg were only ten men from minute 33 on. After that and after the 3:0 they only managed the game and saved their energy. But that is perfectly okay. Let's wait and see whether Hamburg fails again when it comes to the last few games of the season. They have been in this position a couple of times now and out of a sudden started to lose against much weaker opponents. Every singe time I thought that it's not going to happen this time, but it did regardless. If they fail again I have no idea what's wrong with them. It is not the money and not the fans.
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Talking of helping the club I'm overall, is the club helping him at all? Currently, I will say it's Joao Felix if any one asks me who is doing undoubtedly well for chelsea. Joao Felix will offer more than he shows if t all other players best is as good as joao's. If u doubt it, count his contribution per match and compare it to every other attacker.
Some people have suggested that Joao Felix will play better as the top striker for Chelsea, but I do not agree with them because watching Felix play, he does better running from the midfield towards goal than being placed at the center as the main striker. Havertz has not been impressive, but there is something about him that offers hope, but still I think Chelsea another pure striker since they are into the buying business, they need a new coach as well, that is very obvious by now. I think it's part of the process, we can't just look at the game shown by one player, we have to see them as a whole. Have we seen Chelsea play well now? I can't say that yet, to be honest. Joao Felix can show good performance if his team plays well, in the sense that he can't play alone. Graham Potter has yet to find a strategy that is truly implemented optimally by the players who are on the field, it also affects the performance of the players. He also recently joined Chelsea, so I still have high hopes for him. Manchester United is a good example for that. They have become more and more united in the literal sense over time. Chelsea isn't a real team yet. They are quite strong individually, but they don't have a system that they can stick to for 90 minutes and outplay the opponent. They just need too many chances as well. Werner is gone but he could have scored twice every game and hardly scored any goals at all. Havertz is the same problem and we will see how Joao Felix will do. What leaves me seriously puzzled is how Chelsea will stick to the financial fair play rules. Everyone with a sense of fairness knows that this can only be with accounting tricks, but then it still has nothing to do with financial fair play in my opinion.
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All the highlights are yet to be played. It will now start with Bayern against Union Berlin. The week after Dortmund is going to meet RB Leipzig. And on April 1st we also have Bayern against Dortmund. On April 4th it is Dortmund against Union Berlin. This might be the first time in a long team where the league really stays exciting until the very last day. Most of the seasons became irrelevant weeks or sometimes even two months before the season was over. For now this is not the case unless all the closest contenders now start to fall apart again as they often did in the past.
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It's hard to imagine how chelsea would able to win against dortmund.
Not sure why you thought so. Chelsea have better history in Champions League than Dortmund. They won 2 Champions League and in many seasons, they went to quarter final, semi final and final matches. With Dortmund, they only won 1 Champions League against Juventus in 1990s and in the past 20 years, they did not have better record in Champions League than Chelsea. As far as i know if chelsea has so many problems. Anyway, dortmund keeps getting more and more good results in bundesliga which has proven how strong dortmund. I'm thinking about the match will end with draw as the final result. Dortmund will not let chelsea win. Dortmund shall win against chelsea but chelsea can also come with new strength. Chelsea can be considered a new team after so many players got replaced. Im thinking about pick dortmund over chelsea right now.
Chelsea can play well in Champions League especially in knock out matches. Because their players can feel unhappy in Premier League and are not ready to fully fight there but in Champions League, they know they mostly have only one chance to win it in their career. So if they can, they will fight best to win one Champions League. Dortmund has been fully prepared against chelsea. The problem is moukoko will not be playing against chelsea. He will come back to play against hertha.
Chelsea have more quality players than Dortmund and Dortmund lost their best player, Haaland to Manchester City in the last summer. So far Dortmund have yet been able to successfully replace Haaland by another striker. Moukoko is far from a top notch striker like Haaland. Correct me if I am wrong but when you talk about quality players and how that is related to titles won in the Champions League, what about PSG or Manchester City? They have never won a title. It is also about momentum, experience and how a team is playing in a certain moment. It's right that performing bad in the Premier League doesn't necessarily mean they also perform bad in the Champions League, but if you take everything into account I believe that Dortmund is a slight favorite. History doesn't tell a lot about the present. Barcelona won 5 titles in total and they got kicked out during the group stage.
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If everything goes aright for Juventus your calculation is true, but if this also becomes reality Juventus is totally screwed: " Juventus may face 20-point deduction for undeclared wage payments" Now for everyone who thinks this is old news, this is actually on top of the deduction they recently received and is currently under investigation. It is sad because it shows that Juventus hasn't learnt a lot from the scandal back at the time when they were relegated into Serie B in 2006 or so. I've read the news some time ago, if this is really going to be implemented it will be like a nightmare for Juventus, improper management will result in losses for the players, and if the reduction is carried out now Juventus will immediately be in the bottom position because there will be 6 points left and with 17 matches and if they are able to win all the remaining matches they will have 57 points, they will still be safe from relegation but that is if and the question will be whether the players will continue to play calmly with all the chaos that is in the club in order to avoid a worse situation? @Strongkored this is really sad news for all the Juventus fan’s, and I wonder what is Pogba thinking at this moment because he’s yet to play for them and even when he’s fully fit he could probably be playing in Serie B unless he decides to quit Juventus. Lastly what’s happening with them is a total disaster, and I can only hope that they can find a way to stay in Serie A for their fan’s sake. Maybe they have contracts that allow them to leave the club if something like that happens due to mismanagement. I wonder why a club like Juventus Turin that has experience with such issues still has no sufficient internal controls in order to prevent those problems from happening. It's disrespect towards the fans and towards the players and the entire club. What happens to normal people who work for the club and then perhaps lose their jobs because Juventus has to restructure the club because of a lack of money? There is just too much greed involved in any sport these days.
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The fact that they spent 500+ million pounds on transfer and still saying that they are lacking a position is beyond funny to me. If you gave me 500 million pounds today, and gave me a team with zero players in it, I would have built you a team that had at least as much points as Chelsea, who knows maybe even better.
We're in a search of a goal keeper doesn't mean we're urgently in need of one. Don't forget we have about three goal keepers already. Mendy our previous number one has been injuried for quite sometime now and the talks on the renewal of his contract isn't progressing on a positive note which means he's likely to depart in the summer so we're now in search of a replacement for him so we don't fall into the same situation of panic buying like we did in January which clubs take advantage of and increase the value of their players knowing we're desperate and will pay the fee. Chelsea is undergoing a rebuild with a new owner that wants his own players and not those inherited from the previous owners. Chelsea is a big club in Europe and known to be big spenders so you don't expect them to get their players cheap. The 500+ millions we spent got us about 8+ players and not all are available for the season so when you look at it we didn't over spend. The quality of players that were bought are brilliant so it isn't a wasted investments. We just need a quality coach to get this boys playing well again, Graham Potter isn't giving the vibe the squad needs. Graham Potter is not different from a shit poster , he should be flagged red trusted and banned from being Chelsea's Coach. If you look at the project new head wants you will notice it's a long time plan which will definitely get the club enough titles and awards to player's. The problem with Chelsea is currently Graham Potter he deserves the sack letter. Player's like Cucurella should b dropped for a while. Mendy wishes to leave indirectly, I was thinking like he must have forcefully claimed to be Injured not to play because he wants an improvement in what he receives as salary I don't really get how you are talking about Graham Potter. Nobody says that he is a great coach with a long history of outstanding achievements, but if Chelsea comes by and asks you to become their coach, would you decline the offer? In my opinion it is just the new owners who are to blame. They sacked Thomas Tuchel, got Graham Potter and now people blame Potter. I would blame the new club owners. Almost no coach would decline the offer and say "hey this is too difficult for me and I don't want the money as well".
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It is still rumored that Steven Gerrard will return to the Premier League as a manager, having previously failed at Aston Villa, he is on the list being considered for the new Leeds United manager, but doubts he will be able to improve Leeds' position as he has also failed to do so at Aston Villa and his experience at Rangers doesn't seem to be enough to make him great in the EPL as a manager. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/21322506/steven-gerrard-leeds-manager-shortlist-sacked-jesse-marsch/I would be very surprised, if Steven Gerrard would not get at least one or two more chance as a manager of a Premier League club. He was just to good, to important and to popular as a player back then, so i am pretty sure that he still has a lot of credit among the club officials in the premier league. That being said, i am still not sure, if Steven Gerrard really has a lot of talent to become a great manager, because the fact that you were a great player that was coached by great managers during his career does not automatically mean that you are also becoming a great manager. Some players are just not fitted for that role. Steven Gerrard has everything it needs to be a decent manager. Even if he failed with Aston Villa, this does by no means mean the end for him in the EPL. What I like about him is that he is also a nice human being, gives reasonable press conferences and doesn't freak out like a maniac or behaves in intolerable ways. I would also deem him an expert who is constantly willing to improve. Aston Villa was also a tough first task. That's more like a 50:50 thing. If he screwed it with Liverpool that would be a bit of a different story, but failing with Aston Villa could as well have happened to any other manager.
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The gap to the last spot for Champions League is 13 points, 12 points for the Europa League, or mathematically it is about 4-5 matches win. With the fact that there are still 17 matches to go, mathematically Juventus is still having the chance to catch the position but ofc it is hard. What Juventus need to do now is to try to win all the remaining 17 matches and hoping for the other team above their current position losing many points. It is not impossible to happen but really hard to happen unless there will be miracles for them. But in real matches, the math can be wrong Juventus have the opportunity to get ticket to UEL even though they failed to reach 4th place in the final standings this season. they must win the Coppa Italia. However, they should be able to beat Inter Milan in the Semi-Finals. This is the best chance for Juventus to go to UEL, if they fail in this match, it will be even more difficult for them to play at UEL next season because it wil depend on their final standing positions. If everything goes aright for Juventus your calculation is true, but if this also becomes reality Juventus is totally screwed: " Juventus may face 20-point deduction for undeclared wage payments" Now for everyone who thinks this is old news, this is actually on top of the deduction they recently received and is currently under investigation. It is sad because it shows that Juventus hasn't learnt a lot from the scandal back at the time when they were relegated into Serie B in 2006 or so.
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Next time Dortmund are playing an away game against Werder Bremen.
We all are aware of how great form Dortmund have right now. They are on a winning streak of four games and they are only three points away from the leader. Werder Bremen on the other hand are slowly recovering now. They won their last two games. One of these was against Wolfsburg which are a higher-placed team than them. Dortmund have a huge dominance over them anyway maybe but they should be really careful to maintain their streak.
It will be a very interesting game. At least on the basis of how their first meeting ended. If you remember Dortmund led 2-0 until the 89th minute and then lost the game 3-2 in 5 minutes I remember this result very well because Dortmund ruined my multibet at the moment when I already saw that the game was almost over and calculated my profit, and then I saw that my multibet was destroyed. It was damn unexpected. The upcoming week is extremely important for Dortmund and they should avoid at all cost to lose the game against Werder Bremen. They now qualified for the next round in the DFB Cup, they can extend their winning streak to 5 games in the Bundesliga and keep up pressure on Bayern Munich, and they could close perfect 7 days by winning the first leg against Chelsea in the Champions League. Dortmund has given it away a couple of teams in the last seasons because of their instability. I hope that they can keep winning their games and keep the Bundesliga interesting along with RB Leipzig and Union Berlin and maybe Frankfurt as well.
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The own goal by Varane just made things worse for Manchester United just at the beginning of the second half. I thought that they would have got 2-1 ahead instead. But still they found a way to get a point by a 2-2 result at least. Even one point is valuable of course but this result is still unacceptable for the Red Devils of course.
They are much better than this. I really don't know what was wrong this time. I was seeing this game as a comfortable win for them actually.
In short terms, thats soccer! That's really how it is. Manchester United dominated the game almost all the time, but there are these days where you concede an own goal in a very unfavorable moment. First they concede a goal in the first minute of the game, which was pushing Leeds' motivation and Manchester failed to take the opportunity several times during the first half and then you concede an own goal right after half time. Can it get any worse than that? Not winning the full three points did indeed hurt a bit if you look at the table. Still Manchester is in a position that I guess not many would have expected them to be in by now.
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In fact, it is incredible that the dominance of the "big three" in men's tennis has lasted so long and that together they have won as many as 64 GS. Something like this will probably never happen again in the history of tennis or any other sport, that three of the best athletes compete at the same time, against each other. I had much higher expectations from Medvedev, Zverev, Tsitsipas, Thiem and other young hopefuls, but even though some of them managed to win some GS, they still could not break the dominance of the big three. Whether Alcaraz can do that this year and end their dominance, if fit and healthy, remains to be seen.
I agree, every era will have one or max 2 superstars but having 3 such a great players at the same time is something that we will not ever see again anymore I think. They dominated more than 10-15 years and now we have a lot of young talented players but no one really stands out. Alcaraz is probably the one that can win the most grand slam titles of them all but I doubt he will able to dominate the field in the same way as Federer, Nadal and Djokovic did. Sometimes there have been even several years in a row when only Djokovic, Nadal or Federer won the Grand Slam tournaments. If you go to the Wikipedia article you can just scroll down and see the names of those three players all over the place. Imagine you were someone like Thiem or any other player with a promising future, but you have those three guys in front of you. That must even be depressing after some time
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